Tim Tebow is weighing all of his options for this offseason. He's about to play for his 2nd National Championship, and followed up a Heisman Trophy-winning sophomore season with a 3rd place finish this year. As far as college football players, Tebow might be done accomplishing pretty much everything there is to accomplish if the Gators beat Oklahoma in the National Championship game.Tebow has decided to look into his options, and will request a projection from the NFL advisory committee to find out roughly where he would be projected to go in the draft, if he were to declare his eligibility.
ESPN's Todd McShay has recently projected him to be drafted no earlier than the third round, even though he had originally picked Tebow to go 7th overall in his initial 2009 projections.
Mel Kiper, Jr. is widely known as the premier NFL Draft expert in the country. He doesn't have Tebow in his top 5 rankings for QB, even out of the non-senior group. That doesn't mean, however, that Tebow's not on his board at all. He actually has Tebow as his #2 tight end. Tebow has proven to be a strong rusher, and presumably has good hands, but has never actually played tight end, and his potential there is completely unknown. Might he be a solid tight end prospect in the future? Sure. He has the size and the athleticism for it, and as a QB, you would have to assume that he has reasonably good hands. Ranking him as the #2 tight end seems a bit presumptuous, either way.While it's hard to pin down Kiper on an exact draft position for Tebow right now, he has said that although he might be one of the 3-5 best college players ever, he's not going to be a first round pick. NFLMocks.com predicts that he'll go somewhere between the 1st and 3rd rounds. He's a hard player to project, because he has a rather unique skill set, and many teams may be unsure how those skills will translate to the NFL.
Should Tim Tebow enter the NFL Draft? It's hard to say. Would he be a top draft pick in 2009? Not likely. But is there anything else that he could possibly do to improve that if he stayed in school for another year? Also not likely. It's quite the conundrum, and the results of the NFL advisory committee just might make the decision for him, depending on where they project him. I just hope the poor kid isn't anticipating a top 10 pick.

















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